Alpental
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Hey everybody. I’m having a problem with my Aqua C Remora Pro Protein Skimmer and I’m hoping one of you has had a similar experience or can give me some advice. This is a pretty involved story but I would appreciate anybody’s help. I don’t know what to do.
I bought this skimmer with the mag 3 pump and installed it on my tank 2 months ago, as of the 20th of this month (August). I had a real piece of crap on my tank before and as soon as I installed the Remora I was amazed at how well it was working. Pulling out nice dry dirty bubbles. Over the course of about 1.5 months I started noticing a decline in Skim mate output. I decided to wring out the foam guard on the pump intake and use the little circular brush that comes with it to clean the inside of the spray nozzle (the nozzle that make all the bubbles). This is where my problems started. I put everything back together as it was, and went about the rest of my weekly routine: 10% water change, cleaned glass, added buffer and coral supplements etc…Never had any problems before. Towards the end of my routine I looked at my skimmer and it had filled the collection cup about half way in about 20 minutes. It was running really wet and I adjusted the collection so that it was sitting at it’s highest point. I figured it just needed a little time to readjust and I was really impressed with how well it was producing bubbles… until it wouldn’t stop.
Over the next few days it didn’t get any better. It continued to run really wet (at it’s highest setting). It filled up the collection cup multiple times daily with slightly discolored water. Yesterday, I was busy all day and just allowed the collection cup to overflow back into the tank. This is where the next twist of the story begins.
Since yesterday, when I allowed it to overflow back through the skimmer into the tank the bubbles changed and became really foamy. It looks like I dropped a bar of soap in the tank. The foam is actually spilling off from where the collection cup base meets the skimmer body (if you can visualize that) and tons of bubbles are flowing into my tank. On top of that, the foam is overflowing the collection cup about every half hour.
I’ve tried readjusting the screw that opens up the spray nozzle and that didn’t help. All the inhabitants look fine. At this point the only thing that I can think of is I somehow contaminated my tank with something. I did nothing out of the ordinary and I’m always very careful when I’m working on my tank so I can’t imagine how I would’ve done that. See the pictures below.
HELP!!!!!!!!
My tank parameters are as follow:
Temp: 77 degrees
Nitrate: 20ppm
Calcium: 440
Phosphates: 0
Alkalinity: 2.7
PH: 8.3
I do weekly 10% R/O water changes
55 gallon
3 fish: clown, coral beauty, damsel
Soft corasl, LPS
Shrimp, crabs, snails
I bought this skimmer with the mag 3 pump and installed it on my tank 2 months ago, as of the 20th of this month (August). I had a real piece of crap on my tank before and as soon as I installed the Remora I was amazed at how well it was working. Pulling out nice dry dirty bubbles. Over the course of about 1.5 months I started noticing a decline in Skim mate output. I decided to wring out the foam guard on the pump intake and use the little circular brush that comes with it to clean the inside of the spray nozzle (the nozzle that make all the bubbles). This is where my problems started. I put everything back together as it was, and went about the rest of my weekly routine: 10% water change, cleaned glass, added buffer and coral supplements etc…Never had any problems before. Towards the end of my routine I looked at my skimmer and it had filled the collection cup about half way in about 20 minutes. It was running really wet and I adjusted the collection so that it was sitting at it’s highest point. I figured it just needed a little time to readjust and I was really impressed with how well it was producing bubbles… until it wouldn’t stop.
Over the next few days it didn’t get any better. It continued to run really wet (at it’s highest setting). It filled up the collection cup multiple times daily with slightly discolored water. Yesterday, I was busy all day and just allowed the collection cup to overflow back into the tank. This is where the next twist of the story begins.
Since yesterday, when I allowed it to overflow back through the skimmer into the tank the bubbles changed and became really foamy. It looks like I dropped a bar of soap in the tank. The foam is actually spilling off from where the collection cup base meets the skimmer body (if you can visualize that) and tons of bubbles are flowing into my tank. On top of that, the foam is overflowing the collection cup about every half hour.
I’ve tried readjusting the screw that opens up the spray nozzle and that didn’t help. All the inhabitants look fine. At this point the only thing that I can think of is I somehow contaminated my tank with something. I did nothing out of the ordinary and I’m always very careful when I’m working on my tank so I can’t imagine how I would’ve done that. See the pictures below.
HELP!!!!!!!!
My tank parameters are as follow:
Temp: 77 degrees
Nitrate: 20ppm
Calcium: 440
Phosphates: 0
Alkalinity: 2.7
PH: 8.3
I do weekly 10% R/O water changes
55 gallon
3 fish: clown, coral beauty, damsel
Soft corasl, LPS
Shrimp, crabs, snails
What I had to do to prevent it was drop the water level in the neck of the skimmer by opening the gate valve some and it worked great afterwards. I'm not at all familiar with your skimmer so I'm not positive how you adjust it, but I figured I'd share my experience with mine and see if it helps any. If all else fails, I'd talk to Mark (skimmerwhisperer) and see what he recommends. He's pretty sharp when it comes to skimmers. Best of luck
